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I am not a Trump Basher, and I am a Fiscal Conservative, that thinks people should invest invent alternatives. IE Microsoft a monopoly never if you would use Linux for Example.

So in saying this, I think back Obama made decisions on what Banks could and couldn't do, now you have Trump doing the same with At&t Time Warner merger because he dislikes CNN and Boadcom Qualcomm merger. Stockholders vote with their money and Customers vote with their wallets.

Their is an old adage that says the stock market does best when it knows the politicians will not do anything to disrupt the flow. Well look at the Dow it's start to trend lower to a plateau because Trump is turning into Obama , profits will be allowed but stifled to his acceptable ideals.

I wish we could get honest point of view from Warren Buffet , Carl Icahn , hell even Jim Crammer all people with a proven track record. I want their point of view on the merger and the nations security. As a commoner I think the merger should happen, the government shouldn't be reliant on Broadcom chips for 5g and cell tech, and the populous well government already denies us total privacy with our communications, the the name of security from teh "baddies, bad amigos , hombres whatever".

With these attitudes, I fear inflation, and eventual being left behind by the rest of the world. Well be drooling cavemen taking faux burger scraps from McDonald made by the lowest scum of society because well Robots made by the Japanese are a national security risk to the fast food industry.

I exaggerate some perhaps, but I lived through the Monopoly Fears of Microsoft and we see what didn't happen. I remember the IBM control and know when is the last IBM machine you have seen. Saw 3dfx fail , AMD rise and fall, Nvidia Rise, Sony, Nintendo, Western Digital, Burger King, Mcdonalds, Seagate, Ford, GMC, Samsung all rise , fall and rise again. BroadCom merger might make some hardball for a year or two but eventually they play ball or people can go else where, their tech is replacable from the likes of Intel/AMD/TI etc.